Reddit is part of the crypto-fascist Big Tech collective, is what I meant (come to think of it, less and less crypto- and more and more openly fascist now…) Organizing anything on Reddit - or Facebook, Whatsapp, or any traditional social media platform - is unsafe. But using it to rally the troops elsewhere is fine.

Organizing the resistance on Reddit is akin to pinning the Anti-Hitler League’s bulletin on the Gestapo’s corkboard.

Of course it is, no question. But when there’s no other choice…

I know it’s not great, but at the end of the day, a second sound card recording the first one gets the job done. I have loads of rips I did that way. It’s kind of annoying to splice the samples and re-encode them with the correct tags though. But by the time you figure out how to rip something directly, you may find that re-recording the audio is quicker.

Well then err on whatever you read being written in a positive tone if the intent is ambiguous. If you’re wrong, the worst thing that can happen to you is that you look overly optimistic. But at least you won’t raise your blood pressure feeling aggression that may not be there.

I mean well incidentally. I don’t want to sound patronizing.

Here’s a little something I learned many decades ago:

When you read something someone has written, always remember that you didn’t hear the person’s voice what they wrote, and you didn’t see their body language. So you’re missing 67% of the information that person meant to convey.

Your brain naturally makes up the missing information: it might assign a male or female voice to the author of the text, and it might imagine them smiling or being angry, or in some other state of mind if the text can have several meaning, like in the case of irony of sarcasm (that isn’t explicitely marked as such with “/s”).

My advice is this: when you think someone is insulting you, re-read the sentence, but imagining the person smiling or laughing while writing it instead: does it work too? Does the sentence work better with the author smiling or being angry in your mind’s eye?

This has helped me immensely online. It might help you too.

It was a joke.

Once you’ve joined Lemmy, you don’t want to go back.

But if you must, here’s the address.